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Watercraft gallery wide view, showing several boats, including "the gull"

Watercraft Gallery

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Moose Jaw

Watercraft Gallery

Check out a steamboat fashioned after the ill-fated S. S. City of Medicine Hat, which sank after hitting a bridge in Saskatoon in 1908. Other featured watercraft include the Okeehumkee, a boat built in Regina, SK in 1912, and the Gull, purchased in 1935 by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting. This gallery also houses a canoe built in 1933, a reconstructed ferry, a rowboat, and a motorboat.

Highlights

  • 1920s style rowboat replica made by students at the local Peacock Technical School
  • Okeehumkee boat made in Regina, SK in 1912
  • Replica S. S. City of Medicine Hat steamboat
Watercraft gallery wide view, showing several boats, including "the gull"

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